Index on Censorship has always supported the theatre of resistance, and our Winter 2021 magazine even had this issue as its main theme. In Belarus, for example, organisations such as Belarus Free Theatre are crucial to fighting Lukashenka’s...
The summer issue of Index magazine concentrated its efforts on the developing situation between Russia and Ukraine and consequential effects around Europe and the world. We decided to give voice to journalists, artists and dissidents who chose to...
We all want to protect each other from seeing the worst of humanity but we have no right not to be offended
The spring issue of Index magazine is special. We are celebrating 50 years of history and to such a milestone we've decided to look back at the thorny path that brought us here. Editors from our five decades of life have accepted our invitation to...
Aggression against protestors in Kazakhstan, hunger in Afghanistan and Covid deaths continue despite the scandals
Many journalists – women in particular – have fled the Taliban or are in hiding from the brutal regime
The Winter issue of Index magazine highlights the battles fought by theatre of resistance across the world and how they've been enduring different forms of censorship. Writer Jonathan Maitland dives deeply into the history of theatre censorship in...
Three poems on the lives of women in Afghanistan
The Autumn issue of Index magazine focuses on the struggle for environmental justice by indigenous campaigners. Anticipating the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), in Glasgow, in November, we've chosen to give voice to people who are...
More than 80 luminaries from the world of film and theatre have written an open letter to The Times